Architecture Of The Periphery In Chinese: Cartography And Minimalism (Routledge Studies In Chinese Linguistics)

Architecture of the Periphery in Chinese offers a comprehensive survey on the fine structure of the sentence peripheral domain in Mandarin Chinese from a cartographic perspective. Different functional projections hosting sentence-final particles, implicit operators and other informational components are hierarchically ordered according to the "Subjectivity Scale Constraint" functioning at syntax-discourse interface. Three questions will be essentially addressed: What is the order? How to determine such an order? Why such an order? This research not only gives a thorough examination of the peripheral elements in Chinese but also improves the general understanding of the ordering issue in the left-periphery crosslinguistically. This book is aimed at scholars interested in Chinese syntax or generative syntax.

• | Author: Victor Junnan Pan
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jan 30, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 228 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138068187
• | ISBN-13: 9781138068186